‘’Israel accepted five different ceasefire proposals and truce offers, which were all rejected by Hamas,’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
A pre-season friendly game between Israeli football team Maccabi Haifa and French club of Lille had to be stopped after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the pitch in Austria.
Hours after rejecting terms for a longer cease-fire, Netanyahu told Kerry that Israel will begin a 12-hour pause in hostilities starting at 7 a.m. Israeli time on Saturday, a US official said.
Pro-Palestinian protesters waived Hezbollah flags and shouted in support of ‘’Hamas Jihad’’ during a rally in the center of Brussels Friday afternoon, according to witnesses.
Jewish museums in Norway were closed to the public on Friday, a day after Norway stepped up security in the wake of a possible imminent terrorist attack by jihadists coming from Syria.
The Brazilian government said: ‘’We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children, resulted’’.
Franco-Algerian jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of shooting four people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May, is to be extradited from France to Belgium, according to a ruling by the French Supreme Court.
